Her cover of "Why Try to Change Me Now" is great too! 
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

As an Indian, it didn't really bother me (though obviously I can't speak for anyone else). The jokes were about the cluelessness of people like Lindsay who come to India to seek "spiritual enlightenment". The recurring ostriches (including the name of the Indian town being "shuturmurg" - Hindi for ostrich) also serve…

It's available on Amazon but kind of expensive. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0…

I watched Not Fade Away this weekend. Not a bad film, but it all felt a little too familiar and predictable.

I started reading AVC regularly because of your Mad Men Season 2 reviews. I've mostly been a lurker around here but always appreciated the thoughtfulness behind your reviews and other writing. Good luck for your future endeavours and hope to keep reading your stuff!

Jon Hamm also directed the third episode of Season 5, "Tea Leaves".

Just started reading Red Plenty by Francis Spufford. It's a fascinating take on the Soviet Union in the '50s mixing fiction and economic history.

I love The Moviegoer but Lolita is brilliant! Can't really go wrong with either though.

Peter Mullan also played a violent sociopathic character who kills a dog in Tyrannosaur.

Heh, kinda weird to see Indian pop culture on AVC. Nazia Hassan was a Pakistani pop singer, but she did sing for Bollywood movies too, like this one http://www.youtube.com/watc…. Also, a recent Bollywood movie did a remixed version of Disco Deewane http://www.youtube.com/watc….

I came across this one recently on a blog called Writers No One Reads. It's by Carolyn Rodgers, a member of the Black Arts Movement and a student of Gwendolyn Brooks.

This reminded me of a Billy Collins poem "Sweet Talk"… http://youtu.be/B0yn7nS_wuc

I really like this one by Betjeman…

In youth, it was a way I had
To do my best to please,
And change, with every passing lad,
To suit his theories.

Here's a reading by Ralph Fiennes… http://www.guardian.co.uk/b…

One of my favourites too.

Here's Ogden Nash on Wodehouse…

I thought Sasha mentioned during her fight with her boyfriend that paying for utilities is a problem if you don't have a credit card.

I thought I misheard that too. But Hannah did mention in an earlier episode that she doesn't care if people get her name wrong.

Heh, not American, but I'll take it!